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Performance and Pay
Wages and Productivity in the U.S.
On a macroeconomic level, this graph shows the disconnect, beginning around 1975, between the productivity of labor and the wage rate in the U.S. If the economic theory were correct in the real world, wages and productivity would increase together.
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